[Vwoolf] Public Libraries

[Stuart N. Clarke]

All this fuss about closing public libraries!  What are public libraries for?  I’m not up to date with current librarianship thinking, but they seem pretty useless to me.  When I first read Woolf’s essay on Parson Woodforde in CR2, as a teenager in the 1960s, I went to Wimbledon Library and got out one of his vols.  (Sorry, but I couldn’t get anywhere with it.)  Look on the London Borough of Merton’s current online catalogue, and there’s not a single vol. anywhere in the borough; 27 entries for the whole of London.  I remember when there was a whole stack of music scores in the Wim. Library.  Bet they’re not there now.  They might as well close them all as far as I’m concerned.

Rant over.

Stuart
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